Secure the Future of Your Ideas

Specializing in Biotech, Chemical, Medical Device, and Pharmaceutical Patents

About Us

Hylton-Rodic Law is a cutting-edge intellectual property law firm focused on using technology to efficiently provide the highest quality legal service that meets each client’s strategic business objectives, and which is responsive and cost-effective.  Our team is business savvy with strong scientific backgrounds.  Additionally, our team has more than 30 years of combined experience and large firm and in-house experience.  

At Hylton-Rodic Law we appreciate that our legal advice does  

not exist in a vacuum and is an important part of a business decision.

We make it our business to understand each client’s business and its needs, and formulate solutions that always take the business context into account. 

Hylton-Rodic Law provides a wide range of intellectual property services including patent procurement, patent portfolio development and management, and patent-related risk assessment.  Our clients run the gamut from start-ups to large multinational companies.  

Patent Protection Across Industries

  • Biotech

  • Chemical

  • Medical Devices

  • Pharmaceuticals

Our Services

    • Patent application drafting and prosecution (domestic and global)

    • Patentability searches and assessments

    • Filing and prosecution strategies

    • Worldwide patent procurement (PCT filings, national stage filings)

    • Coordination of foreign jurisdiction prosecution

    • Strategic patent landscape and whitespace analysis

    • Offensive/defensive prosecution strategies

    • IP counseling for filing and strategic design-around

    • Strategic advice for product development and key business decisions

    • Patent-related risk and due diligence investigations

    • Freedom-to-operate assessments: validity, infringement, non-infringement, design-around

    • Expedited patent examination strategies

    • Examiner interviews and appeals

    • ex parte reexaminations, inter partes reviews (IPR), post-grant reviews (PGR)

    • Derivation proceedings and third-party submissions

    • Validity, invalidity, non-infringement, infringement opinions

    • Strategic IP development and licensing